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qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
20 vs 59
Hardware Fit
37 vs 65
Quality Score
12 vs 57

Hardware

qwen3.5:27b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineAZW GTR ProMac mini
CPUAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395Apple M4
Cores3210
RAM125 GB24 GB
GPUAMD Radeon 8060SApple M4
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:27b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec10.614.3
First chunk358 ms24 ms
TTFT13.7 s13.4 s
Load time10.8 s13.3 s
Memory usage39.7 GB2.5 GB
Memory %32%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:27b

Speed
9/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
28/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
32/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:27b

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
2/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
9/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate
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